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what he did was doggedly point out what mitt romney did at bain and mitt romney's policies for the middle class. he opposed the auto bailout. he opposes more equitable tax policy where millionaires and billionaires would pay their fair share. >> let's not start with the talking points. let's have a conversation here. talking points is not anything anyone has interest in. john, was it a mistake for romney to use his credential? >> i don't think that was a mistake. i think he made a mistake in how he sold it. people become wealthy in this country, we used to champion them. today we vilify them. despite what your other guest said, the president was certainly part of the 1% vilification. the way a person becomes wealthy in america is having an entrepreneurial dream and serving other people well. if you serve customers well in america, you can become wealthy. we used to think that was a good thing during this election cycle with a president leading the way it was vilified. it's outrageous and should stop. >> the vilifying really has to stop already. there's an american dream and an aspirationa
what he did was doggedly point out what mitt romney did at bain and mitt romney's policies for the middle class. he opposed the auto bailout. he opposes more equitable tax policy where millionaires and billionaires would pay their fair share. >> let's not start with the talking points. let's have a conversation here. talking points is not anything anyone has interest in. john, was it a mistake for romney to use his credential? >> i don't think that was a mistake. i think he made a...
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romney was not in favor of any more revenues and romney debunked that and said, look, we're in favor of revenues, and i think he was largely speaking for the republican party at that point. we're in favor of more revenues. the ryan budget, for example, had revenue assumptions in it. so i think what's got to happen is that both sides have to let the other team take a victory lap. let republicans come into this debate where we keep tax rates low and reasonable and predictable and drive toward tax reform next year. democrats can come into the debate and claim a victory and say, well, we're interested in more revenues. the key is, can we get to these underlying situations and that is entitlement reform. that's where the action is. >> okay. but how realistic is it to postpone or extend everything for a year? as i understand it, this was in the "wall street journal" editorial page this morning and i've heard this elsewhere, that mr. boehner would like to just extend the tax cuts and i don't know what you all are going to do about spending. nobody ever wants to cut spending. is that realist
romney was not in favor of any more revenues and romney debunked that and said, look, we're in favor of revenues, and i think he was largely speaking for the republican party at that point. we're in favor of more revenues. the ryan budget, for example, had revenue assumptions in it. so i think what's got to happen is that both sides have to let the other team take a victory lap. let republicans come into this debate where we keep tax rates low and reasonable and predictable and drive toward tax...
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that compared to mitt romney's 27%. there is a demographic sea change happening, and the republicans failed to see it coming. here now is cnbc contributor sarah fagan, republican strategist and polling expert. sarah, i don't know how you see this, but all i can say is with those kinds of numbers, a 40 percentage point spread, right there that could have been the election. particularly when you get to key battleground states. if republicans don't change this, they're never going to win a national election. >> they're never going to win a national election and we're never going to have a governing majority ever in this country. you're right, larry, this is a real challenge for the party. and one of the benefits of losing by such a large margin is i think people will finally stop and focus on the fact we have to do something about it. we have known this is a problem for many years. people have been talking about it. but i think you'll start to see action. >> but the language is too harsh. the border language is -- everybod
that compared to mitt romney's 27%. there is a demographic sea change happening, and the republicans failed to see it coming. here now is cnbc contributor sarah fagan, republican strategist and polling expert. sarah, i don't know how you see this, but all i can say is with those kinds of numbers, a 40 percentage point spread, right there that could have been the election. particularly when you get to key battleground states. if republicans don't change this, they're never going to win a...
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mitt romney and paul ryan are good men. they're good leaders. i want to wish mitt, ann, paul, and janna and their families well. the american people have spoken. they've re-elected president obama, and they've again re-elected a republican majority in the house of representatives. if there's a mandate in yesterday's results, it's a mandate for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to the challenges that we all face as a nation. my message today is not one of confrontation but one of conviction. in the weeks and months ahead, we face a series of tremendous challenges and great opportunity. just weeks away from now looms the so-called fiscal cliff, a combination of automatic spending cuts and tax increases mandated by law. within months of the fiscal cliff, congress will be asked to raise the nation's debt ceiling. around the same time, legislation will be needed to keep the government running as a continuing resolution under which we're currently operating expires. amid all of these short-term hurdles, we face the greatest challenge
mitt romney and paul ryan are good men. they're good leaders. i want to wish mitt, ann, paul, and janna and their families well. the american people have spoken. they've re-elected president obama, and they've again re-elected a republican majority in the house of representatives. if there's a mandate in yesterday's results, it's a mandate for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to the challenges that we all face as a nation. my message today is not one of confrontation but one...
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mitt romney wouldn't go near and it paid the price for it. >> i don't understand what mitt romney was doing because i don't think mitt romney was that conservative on these issues. i spoke to him on the immigration issue in january. i told him that he would immediate to reach out and seemed very open to ideas in this private conversation that we had. and then i saw the republican platform in tampa which was awful. it called for self deportation which is impractical and also immortal to uproot 10 million people and their families. we can't do that. and i think we immediate to outreach and the idea that i think some people have that this was a base election, the base was already energized. he didn't immediate to go to the far right on issues. he needed to talk about the jack kemp conservativeism and ronald reagan and larry kudlow conservatism of economic growth of prosperity of bringing people in. reagan that did the big apple nesty in 1988. >> exactly. '86. >> i stand correct. >> we didn't call it amnesty. everybody knew what it was. basically the idea was that, you know, would buy tim
mitt romney wouldn't go near and it paid the price for it. >> i don't understand what mitt romney was doing because i don't think mitt romney was that conservative on these issues. i spoke to him on the immigration issue in january. i told him that he would immediate to reach out and seemed very open to ideas in this private conversation that we had. and then i saw the republican platform in tampa which was awful. it called for self deportation which is impractical and also immortal to...
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i think if romney wins, and i've got my red elephant tie on, but i think if romney wins, we're going to see a 2% to 5% selloff by thanksgiving. i think if president obama's re-elected, we're going to have a much stronger rally in the short term and go to new highs for 2012 by year end. but i do agree the fundamental backdrop isn't as -- boy, this is the most disavowed bull market in history. everybody loves to hate it. the market trades fairly well. yeah, we've got some cracks beneath the surface, clearly, some sector leadership that's in question, but until we see liquidity being sucked out, until you see high-yield bonds roll over, until you see the nyse advance and the russell really take it on the chin, you have to side with the bulls over the intermediate term. >> let's not forget, to say it doesn't matter who's in the white house, a lot is at stake here. number one, health care. will it be repealed? will it stay in place? tax reform. what will that look like? will we see 43% tax rates for capital gains and dividends? we could see the next president seat three to the supreme cou
i think if romney wins, and i've got my red elephant tie on, but i think if romney wins, we're going to see a 2% to 5% selloff by thanksgiving. i think if president obama's re-elected, we're going to have a much stronger rally in the short term and go to new highs for 2012 by year end. but i do agree the fundamental backdrop isn't as -- boy, this is the most disavowed bull market in history. everybody loves to hate it. the market trades fairly well. yeah, we've got some cracks beneath the...
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i'm pretty confused about why the romney campaign didn't hit the obama care tax argument harder on the campaign trail because the supreme court ruled it a tax for good reason. it had gone through the numbers here on your show. this hit small businesses and in return hits the middle class, the very people that these small businesses employ, the people who will get hid the hardest, even though making $200,000 per year are the ones employing the middle class that president obama keep propping up to get his agenda passed. >> now we have this $20 million medical device tax. this has been around. i believe you write this will really crush medical innovation in the united states. >> right. i think this is one of the more severe tax thaeds we're going to see. essentially with this medical device tax, they're tacking on more costs to life saving devices such as mechanical hearts. it does the same thing as a doctor shortage. the students that go into these programs, myio medical engineering, are not going to see a return on their investment because it's going to be a too expensive for companies
i'm pretty confused about why the romney campaign didn't hit the obama care tax argument harder on the campaign trail because the supreme court ruled it a tax for good reason. it had gone through the numbers here on your show. this hit small businesses and in return hits the middle class, the very people that these small businesses employ, the people who will get hid the hardest, even though making $200,000 per year are the ones employing the middle class that president obama keep propping up...
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romney would help him. that's a group that votes for mr. romney. a strong turnout from the under 50 crowd for president obama. they favor him. along with the fact that we're waiting to see whether that 18 to 29-year-old vote turns out. they helped to propel president obama to victory here in the sunshine state in 2008. lastly, the question is who captures the independents. right now they lean to romney. keep in mind here in florida if the margin of victory is less than a half percent, there's an automatic recount. we could be here late. back to you guys. >> mary, thanks very much. mary thompson live tonight in florida and again florida so far too close to call. once we have a definitive answer, we'll bring it to you. jim cramer back with us. also on the phone with us right now is congressman ron paul of texas. and former republican presidential candidate. good to have you on the program. thanks for joining us. >> very close night as we expected. so far we're talking 82 electoral votes for governor romney versus 64 for president obama. once we know
romney would help him. that's a group that votes for mr. romney. a strong turnout from the under 50 crowd for president obama. they favor him. along with the fact that we're waiting to see whether that 18 to 29-year-old vote turns out. they helped to propel president obama to victory here in the sunshine state in 2008. lastly, the question is who captures the independents. right now they lean to romney. keep in mind here in florida if the margin of victory is less than a half percent, there's...
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there was a hope with romney it would not. only one-third of the regulations have been put in place. nobody believes the next two-thirds of the regulations will be helpful to banks and financials. i look at the economy going forward. i see no real catalyst for organic growth. i think the money center of banks have had a good run year to date. i suggest people take profits. i suggest people be conservative in their investments, not aggressive. i think we are in a grind it out economy much like the 1970s. i want to focus on needs, not wants, companies that have bulletproof balance sheets that pay you to own them. i think it is better to be conservative versus aggressive. >> like what? big selloffs in the names like bank of america, jpmorgan today. anything out there worth picking up? >> if you're looking at financials, select regional banks. they're not down as much. a lot of the money center banks are down 6%, 7%. the canadian banks are down between 1% and 2%. companies like j&j and intel are not down as much. i think this is s
there was a hope with romney it would not. only one-third of the regulations have been put in place. nobody believes the next two-thirds of the regulations will be helpful to banks and financials. i look at the economy going forward. i see no real catalyst for organic growth. i think the money center of banks have had a good run year to date. i suggest people take profits. i suggest people be conservative in their investments, not aggressive. i think we are in a grind it out economy much like...
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idaho is going to governor romney. governor romney wins idaho with four electoral votes. nbc news projecting mitt romney the winner there. >> couple of big states out of the pacific northwest as we continue to hear the crowds at democracy plaza. the state of oregon, too early to call. although nbc news is saying that the president, barack obama, does lead in the state of oregon. and washington state. nbc news projects that barack obama will take the state of washington. there are some cheers in democracy plaza. we'll go back to there as the map fills in as the night goes on. >> not really clear who the fan base is for because you're hearing the same kind of, you know, phrase for both obama and romney. >> puts the president at 243 which is less than 30 points needed to get to 270. things are getting important here. in the meantime, your headlines at this hour. nbc news projecting obama ahead in electoral votes after sweeping up california as we mentioned. wisconsin, new hampshire. the first of the battleground state also fall to obama. however, we're still waiting on the o
idaho is going to governor romney. governor romney wins idaho with four electoral votes. nbc news projecting mitt romney the winner there. >> couple of big states out of the pacific northwest as we continue to hear the crowds at democracy plaza. the state of oregon, too early to call. although nbc news is saying that the president, barack obama, does lead in the state of oregon. and washington state. nbc news projects that barack obama will take the state of washington. there are some...
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he won a mandate not to be romney. he did not win a mandate not to raise taxes and fix the economy. >> john boehner says we can cap deductions, probably produce $400 billion coming up pretty fast. no change in tax rates. so it is not a flat tax reform but no increase in marginal tax rates. can you and your pledge, with the pledge be okay with the bay nor plan to increase revenues by capping deductions? he has not endorsed raising taxes nor did he a year ago. if you eliminate deductions now, you have destroyed the opportunity for tarx reform a year ago. they are not available to reduce tax rates. >> so you are opposed to it. it is bad for the economy and it destroyed our effort to get tax reform down the road. >> i have talked to staff and remembers and they don't need to hear it from me, they know that lower marginal tax rates are necessary for growth and the only way to get the revenue to pay down obama's debt. >> help me out, in effect, is the plan to put a cap on deductions, does his plan break the americans for tax
he won a mandate not to be romney. he did not win a mandate not to raise taxes and fix the economy. >> john boehner says we can cap deductions, probably produce $400 billion coming up pretty fast. no change in tax rates. so it is not a flat tax reform but no increase in marginal tax rates. can you and your pledge, with the pledge be okay with the bay nor plan to increase revenues by capping deductions? he has not endorsed raising taxes nor did he a year ago. if you eliminate deductions...
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i'm sure that governor romney's spending some time with his family. and my hope is before the end of the year though that we have a chance to sit down and talk. there are certain aspects of governor romney's record and his ideas that i think could be very helpful and -- well, to give you one example, i do think he did a terrific job running the olympics and that skill set of trying to figure out how do we make something work better applies to the federal government. there are a lot of ideas that i don't think are partisan ideas, but are just smart ideas about how can we make the federal government more customer friendly, how can we make sure that we're consolidating programs that are duplicative, how can we eliminate additional waste. he presented some ideas during the course of the campaign that i actually agree with, and so it would be interesting to talk to him about something like that. there may be ideas that he has with respect to jobs and growth that can help middle class families that i want to hear. so i'm not either prejudging what he's inte
i'm sure that governor romney's spending some time with his family. and my hope is before the end of the year though that we have a chance to sit down and talk. there are certain aspects of governor romney's record and his ideas that i think could be very helpful and -- well, to give you one example, i do think he did a terrific job running the olympics and that skill set of trying to figure out how do we make something work better applies to the federal government. there are a lot of ideas...
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romney ran his campaign. somebody made an interesting point to me this week and said, you know, the very end he wasn't enthusing big crowds, he was enthusing people who should have been with them from the start. and when he finally turned after the denver debate and finally got momentum. it wasn't enough time to bring in the undecided voters and people that were sort of marginal in the end because he spent so much of this time, campaign, instead letting obama define him and deciding to run a referendum campaign on the president. >> what about the minority vote, asians, hispanics, jason, they went even bigger numbers for president obama this year, than four years ago. >> oh, sure, i mean, that's-- he got, particularly latinos, this were more of them, they made up larger percentage of the electorate and won more of them. and that may have been the key, particularly in the swing states in the mountain west that george w. bush did so well in, colorado, iowas, your nevadas new mexico. romney did didn't play out th
romney ran his campaign. somebody made an interesting point to me this week and said, you know, the very end he wasn't enthusing big crowds, he was enthusing people who should have been with them from the start. and when he finally turned after the denver debate and finally got momentum. it wasn't enough time to bring in the undecided voters and people that were sort of marginal in the end because he spent so much of this time, campaign, instead letting obama define him and deciding to run a...
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and 43% said mitt romney. that 10-point deficit proved fatal to romney. romney never recovered from missteps that labeled him too rich to understand the average american. there was the $10,000 bet he offered rick perry in one of those really primary debates. that became so notorious that it was part of the narrative. >> many voters feel that mitt romney's out of touch with real americans after he tried to make the bet with rick perry for $10,000. yeah, when asked to comment, mitt said, i'm sorry, but that's all i had in my pocket at the time. chris: wow. what romney thought he could score points after president obama said the private sector was doing just fine. david lederman turned it around on romney. >> mitt romney jumped right on this and waste nod time issuing this response -- wasted no time issuing this response saying that the private sector is fine. watch what mitt had to say. >> after president obama made this statement -- >> the private sector is doing fine. >> mitt romney quickly responded. >> he said the private sector is doing fine. is he rea
and 43% said mitt romney. that 10-point deficit proved fatal to romney. romney never recovered from missteps that labeled him too rich to understand the average american. there was the $10,000 bet he offered rick perry in one of those really primary debates. that became so notorious that it was part of the narrative. >> many voters feel that mitt romney's out of touch with real americans after he tried to make the bet with rick perry for $10,000. yeah, when asked to comment, mitt said,...
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these little snapshot moments with unfortunately governor romney talking about self-deportation, the right snapshot moments were booted and hooted down by some of my republican friends, and i think we've got to totally get away from that, and you have the creds to do it. >> there's a lot of disagreement on this issue. my view is simple. we need to stop illegal immigration, and we need to welcome legal immigration. >> many thanks, texas senator-elect ted cruz, great to see you. >>> coming up tomorrow evening, i'm going to be joined by republican senator-elect jeff flake from arizona. he, by the way, is a fierce spending cutter. nobody in this country wants to cut spending, it seems to me. the u.s. is on the path to its fifth straight $1 trillion-plus deficit. that is incredible. former congressional budget office director douglas holtz-akin is up next to tell us how to avoid it. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our busi
these little snapshot moments with unfortunately governor romney talking about self-deportation, the right snapshot moments were booted and hooted down by some of my republican friends, and i think we've got to totally get away from that, and you have the creds to do it. >> there's a lot of disagreement on this issue. my view is simple. we need to stop illegal immigration, and we need to welcome legal immigration. >> many thanks, texas senator-elect ted cruz, great to see you....
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gerri: baby mitt romney was right. the lack of the press and other problems facing residents a desperate need for gas as 1/4 of the stations are out now people are returning to the black market some are flocking to craig's list to buy and sell gas. our senior petroleum analyst joins me now. how serious is the black market? >> in your city the five boroughs only one-fourth of the stations have gas. more stations regionally do but it is hard hit here in new york city. people trying to sell gasoline as much as $70 a gallon. gerri: $12 a gallon, 13, $20 on craig's list. people will do almost anything they can. what are you seeing? >> we have seen so many different things. people are starting to do it. folks are getting desperate but there is gasoline and more justifiable prices pocket. gerri: help-wanted. 1 gallon of gas delivered to me so i can make it home. i will pay $40. should officials step in? should the market the forced out? >> we saw katrina where officials did crackdown to deliver generators. but it will be diff
gerri: baby mitt romney was right. the lack of the press and other problems facing residents a desperate need for gas as 1/4 of the stations are out now people are returning to the black market some are flocking to craig's list to buy and sell gas. our senior petroleum analyst joins me now. how serious is the black market? >> in your city the five boroughs only one-fourth of the stations have gas. more stations regionally do but it is hard hit here in new york city. people trying to sell...
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i don't think romney made any kind of strong policy case on anything. and the problem is for the republican party it's not just message. it all comes back to policy. i'll still make my point on the economy. you agree with me on immigration, that the republicans got to adjust their immigration message. >> right. >> it's a real problem for them. and the thing is that's going to i think do them in is demographics, is that the obama coalition is here to stay. women, african-americans, hispanics. and if they don't change their position on issues that constituency cares about they're going to have a problem moving forward -- >> mark simone, i don't want two liberal parties. i don't want two liberal parties. i'm making a different case. how do you respond to igor? >> it's not like it's a changing position. the republicans don't have to start handing out condoms on every corner but i did i they should get out of that issue, leave it to the churches, to the states. and just have no position on that ever again. i think that was the biggest piece of baggage around
i don't think romney made any kind of strong policy case on anything. and the problem is for the republican party it's not just message. it all comes back to policy. i'll still make my point on the economy. you agree with me on immigration, that the republicans got to adjust their immigration message. >> right. >> it's a real problem for them. and the thing is that's going to i think do them in is demographics, is that the obama coalition is here to stay. women, african-americans,...
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romney. >> i was kidding, scott. i said it's not just hamilton county. it's actually my street. gayle collins lived up here and i lived like eight houses down. it was actually that street. it's unbelievable, though, that it was hamilton county again. but cincinnati is one of the most traditionally conservative places, scott. and that's very telling right there, that couldn't even carry hamilton county. and that's all she wrote. >> that's right. >> in the end, really all it did was preserve ohio's bellwether status. >> it's interesting, i saw some of the exit poll information yesterday, where something like 30 something percent of people said they were conservative, maybe 33%, maybe 35% of people. 27 or 29% of people identified themselves as liberals. more than 30% of the people who were coming out of those exit polls identified themselves as moderates. and that was the question, is where those moderates were going to fall. i guess that answered a big part of question. >> reporter: joe, you kn
romney. >> i was kidding, scott. i said it's not just hamilton county. it's actually my street. gayle collins lived up here and i lived like eight houses down. it was actually that street. it's unbelievable, though, that it was hamilton county again. but cincinnati is one of the most traditionally conservative places, scott. and that's very telling right there, that couldn't even carry hamilton county. and that's all she wrote. >> that's right. >> in the end, really all it did...
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it was romney. >> i think in many ways it was romney. and as steven pointed out he came in with no ideology and no way to communicate. >> you believe he was believed? did people believe he believed what he said? >> no. >> that's what i think was the problem. >> that was one of his problems but -- >> they don't believe he was saying anything more than what he thought would win the election. gee got beat by women by 14 points. you cannot win -- when you give big blocks of the electorate away which republicans are now doing, you can't win. >> ronald reagan was elected president. he ran a powerfully smart campaign. although he was pro-life, although he was pretty hawkish on foreign policy, he focused on jobs 37 he focused on the economy. and he was disciplined. so people sort of got the message wink, wink, yeah, i'm pro-life but i'm not going to change the law. in kr he didn't sign a pro-choice position. he wasn't anti-gay. in other words, the emphasis he put on the job creation and the economy is what got him elected. your guy this time, ro
it was romney. >> i think in many ways it was romney. and as steven pointed out he came in with no ideology and no way to communicate. >> you believe he was believed? did people believe he believed what he said? >> no. >> that's what i think was the problem. >> that was one of his problems but -- >> they don't believe he was saying anything more than what he thought would win the election. gee got beat by women by 14 points. you cannot win -- when you give...
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if it had been romney, the cliff would be less of a deal because they would stepped all of them. so now we know and we lettered it first hand yesterday. boehner said we're open to tax increase, but part of a bigger plan that involves spending cuts. dove did a bungee -- >> worst thing i ever did. >> but it goes down and then right back up. >> the worst part is you feel like you're connected on something, but don't. it's a free fall until the very he said and then he start to feel like i'm connected to something and it throws being back into the air. >> my question is let's say that it's not a bungee, let's say it's a rope. so you jump and then you -- that would be like hanging yourself. but you do possibly survive. but then you're all the way down there and then you don't know when someone's going to pull you back up. i think it might be more like that. if we go down, we may be d dangling for a while. >> once we go over the cliff, it's much more complicated. and you get rope burns, too. >> you can it. well, that's if it's not stretchy and it's just a rope,s's more than a burn. the
if it had been romney, the cliff would be less of a deal because they would stepped all of them. so now we know and we lettered it first hand yesterday. boehner said we're open to tax increase, but part of a bigger plan that involves spending cuts. dove did a bungee -- >> worst thing i ever did. >> but it goes down and then right back up. >> the worst part is you feel like you're connected on something, but don't. it's a free fall until the very he said and then he start to...
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the message was protecting the middle class and they beat romney very badly on that. >> romney in all the polls, including the one last night, didn't buy his act. >> right. >> and called for lower tax rates which didn't win the day for him. >> and the other part which is important, he said i'm not wedded to any detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. that is really important because both sides have to give up things they care about. >> i heard an entirely different speech than we all did had romney won, and he could have won, a couple weeks ago, looked like he was headed that direction. he said he wanted the tax money from the rich because he wanted to do things. not to screw them, but to do something. he actually came out and said i want to do things. rebuild the highways. we've got to catch up the chinese in education. catch up to the west in the world. >> i think the election we just had had in some ways is one of the most ideological election that's we've had in modern times. the president as you look at a way to come together communally to invest in education, infrastructure,
the message was protecting the middle class and they beat romney very badly on that. >> romney in all the polls, including the one last night, didn't buy his act. >> right. >> and called for lower tax rates which didn't win the day for him. >> and the other part which is important, he said i'm not wedded to any detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. that is really important because both sides have to give up things they care about. >> i heard an entirely...
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the union blames romney. really? the throwdown is coming up. >>> as we head toward the close, it looks like famous last words. volatility may be settling down a bit. the dow was up more than 40 points a moment ago. now up 29. volume surely will spike here on the close because it is expiration day on wall street. a lot of options and futures are expiring right now. so everybody from washington to wall street is talking about fixing the debt. here's what alan simpson of the simpson/bowles commission told maria on the program yesterday. listen to this. >> the big bang theory of the universe was 13,600,000,000 years ago. that ain't even close to 1 trillion, and we owe 16 of those babies. >> we don't want to lose sight of what the debt is. just remember, it is $16 trillion. what can you get for that? >> indeed, what can you get for $16 trillion, besides a swift kick towards the fiscal cliff? why not buy apple, exxon, walmart, google, and ibm all of them combined. >> not just as a group, but eight times as a group. you cou
the union blames romney. really? the throwdown is coming up. >>> as we head toward the close, it looks like famous last words. volatility may be settling down a bit. the dow was up more than 40 points a moment ago. now up 29. volume surely will spike here on the close because it is expiration day on wall street. a lot of options and futures are expiring right now. so everybody from washington to wall street is talking about fixing the debt. here's what alan simpson of the...
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the president was committed elected on the basis that he was not romney, and that romney was a poopy head and you should vote against romney, and he won by two points. but he didn't make the case that we should have higher taxes and higher spending. it sounded like the opposite. >> i'm not sure what grover norquist meant by that, but then again i rarely under him in the first place. joining me now former secretary under president clinton now a professor at uc berkeley robert reich whose best selling e-book "beyond outrage:what has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy and how to fix it" is now available on paper work. good evening. >> good evening. >> eliot: i want to pars where the republicans are. has the republican relationship willing to increase marginal tax rates. >> no, they have not said that they're willing to increase marginal tax rates at all. they said they're willing to increase revenues which is different from increasing rates. you can increase revenues by closing a few loopholes, putting a limit on certain deductions but they have not come around in any way som
the president was committed elected on the basis that he was not romney, and that romney was a poopy head and you should vote against romney, and he won by two points. but he didn't make the case that we should have higher taxes and higher spending. it sounded like the opposite. >> i'm not sure what grover norquist meant by that, but then again i rarely under him in the first place. joining me now former secretary under president clinton now a professor at uc berkeley robert reich whose...
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you talk about the romney surprise. the people in the market. you were hosting this and they said at 8:30, 9:00 that romney had it in the bag. you might have been shorting hca if that was the case. >> ubs on uhs. >> i find it more undervalued. it's very liquid. i want to be careful with these. in the end you have to deal with the next quarter. that's probably not such a blowout. we always want to project what will happen in 2013. then we realize we have to deal with what happens aftermath of 2012. i don't like these trades so to speak. i don't like hospital stocks. i'm not going to trade off it. >> these obvious calls. >> obvious calls. >> going long hmos and going short goal, is that trade done? >> coal is the one i would say be careful and should sell. that's a stroke of a pen. romney could have got those epa guys out. epa gets more entrenched. you are getting the word right now that says phase out those coal plants. get them closed now. you switch to natural gas and that's bad for coal and bad for norfolk southern and bad for csx. >> what eff
you talk about the romney surprise. the people in the market. you were hosting this and they said at 8:30, 9:00 that romney had it in the bag. you might have been shorting hca if that was the case. >> ubs on uhs. >> i find it more undervalued. it's very liquid. i want to be careful with these. in the end you have to deal with the next quarter. that's probably not such a blowout. we always want to project what will happen in 2013. then we realize we have to deal with what happens...
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romney was going to win the election. i have been wrong in the past and i can be wrong again. >> that is a big man to admit that. i am interested in how you are trading this. last week we had the embassies up 3% to 4%. is the optimism to get a deal done priced in? >> there is a good deal priced in. i was impressed the market came off of the bottom as far as it did. monday of last week we ran up against the trend line. we shouldn't be surprised by correction. if we can hold here for another day or two my guess is we go higher in equities. that is what a resolution will be strong for the equities market. some will say it will be bearish for the bond market. a lot of my friends have tried to sell the bond market short for three years and it has never worked. it will be supportive for equities. it is probably also supportive for raw materials, copper may be something to take a look at. >> take a look, then. good to see you on cnbc. >>> sometimes our traders hit it right out of the park and sometimes they swing and miss. let's
romney was going to win the election. i have been wrong in the past and i can be wrong again. >> that is a big man to admit that. i am interested in how you are trading this. last week we had the embassies up 3% to 4%. is the optimism to get a deal done priced in? >> there is a good deal priced in. i was impressed the market came off of the bottom as far as it did. monday of last week we ran up against the trend line. we shouldn't be surprised by correction. if we can hold here for...
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including romney himself did not see it coming. we learned that the conservative movement does not know who to blame or where to go next. finally we learned that the voice of reason in the republican party now belongs to of all people chris christie. disagrees with mitt romney that the loss was a result of president obama giving gifts to minorities, christie had a more realistic idea. >> someone asked me the other day why did mitt romney lose? because he got less votes than barack obama. i voted for mitt romney but the bottom line is we lost. what we need to as leaders of our part is to if we do, they will put us back into office. and if we don't, they won't. >> eliot: that is what you call sophisticated analysis. joining me now with his tack, is charles pierce contributing writer to esquire. >> hello eliott. >> eliot: did we get over fact over fiction. >> it's a lose but they'll be back. >> eliot: you think the republican party will come back around their narrative of the world and try to reassert it or shift and a new game plan i
including romney himself did not see it coming. we learned that the conservative movement does not know who to blame or where to go next. finally we learned that the voice of reason in the republican party now belongs to of all people chris christie. disagrees with mitt romney that the loss was a result of president obama giving gifts to minorities, christie had a more realistic idea. >> someone asked me the other day why did mitt romney lose? because he got less votes than barack obama....
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it's a fitting end point to the mitt romney experience. governor romney knows that it's all over. he's enjoying some time on the rides at disneyland but as he's taking in the fun, his former friends are politically backstabbing him. it's a full war. today, one of romney's top policy advisers revealed what was really going on with all of the romney haters. >> watching some of these republican officials now trashing mitt romney, the friday night before the election, we were in cincinnati, hundreds of romney top surrogates at the event. i'm backstage with them and they are you canning about him like he's a reagan and is going to win in four or five days and in fact some are positioning themselves for a romney cabinet. and i won't say who they are. they know who they are. they were on television. it's unbelievable. five, six days later absolutely eviserating him. >> wow. pull back the curtain and what do you see? a whole bunch of phonies. don't be fooled, they haven't learned any lessons. joining me now is ana marie cox and ryan grim. thanks to you both for being here tonight. >> good
it's a fitting end point to the mitt romney experience. governor romney knows that it's all over. he's enjoying some time on the rides at disneyland but as he's taking in the fun, his former friends are politically backstabbing him. it's a full war. today, one of romney's top policy advisers revealed what was really going on with all of the romney haters. >> watching some of these republican officials now trashing mitt romney, the friday night before the election, we were in cincinnati,...
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we know mitt romney was more of a fan of coal stocks. but he will not be our president. we now know. mar maria, back to you. >> court, thanks. meanwhile, what's the deal with groupon? the daily deal website's latest results out just minutes ago. we'll talk about what groupon needs to survive. the story next. plus, more on this busy edition of the "closing bell." >>> coming up, the empire strikes gold? >> hello there. >> disney's ceo bob iger joins maria for a first-on interview to talk earnings and the acquisition that adds the star wars franchise to the magic kingdom's galaxy of studios. >>> plus, rise above. should we be doing all we can to stop from going over the fiscal cliff? >> let's rise above the dysfunction and do the right thing together for our country. >> or is it a necessary evil for the long-term health of our economy? we debate straight ahead. >>> and coming unraveled. he's the man some say is a bigger crook and liar than bernie madoff. >> how many people who are condemning what i did would know for sure they would never do anything like what i did if they
we know mitt romney was more of a fan of coal stocks. but he will not be our president. we now know. mar maria, back to you. >> court, thanks. meanwhile, what's the deal with groupon? the daily deal website's latest results out just minutes ago. we'll talk about what groupon needs to survive. the story next. plus, more on this busy edition of the "closing bell." >>> coming up, the empire strikes gold? >> hello there. >> disney's ceo bob iger joins maria for...
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i talked to the romney campaign. they found voters that we didn't know existed in hamilton county, ohio. they just did a much better job finding these people. and in fairness, they had more time. they didn't have a primary campaign to fight. they had a lot of time do -- to do this. gwen: i don't know how many stories i read about how much they thought they were going to win. >> they with so convinced they were going to win that somebody describe today me -- described to me that when they found they lost, it was like a death in the family. the "boston globe" said they had fireworks ready to go. why did they think they were going to win? they had a fundamentally different view of the elect tort. when the public polls came out they looked at these polls and said these polls have too many democrats. there's no way this president will be able to build up the enthusiasm that way. there are a lot of polls that were pretty close. and this person said that -- they said it was inconceivable. we thought there's no way he's goin
i talked to the romney campaign. they found voters that we didn't know existed in hamilton county, ohio. they just did a much better job finding these people. and in fairness, they had more time. they didn't have a primary campaign to fight. they had a lot of time do -- to do this. gwen: i don't know how many stories i read about how much they thought they were going to win. >> they with so convinced they were going to win that somebody describe today me -- described to me that when they...
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mitt romney is the right man for this moment. we can do this. [applause] we know what we need to do. we are not going to duck these tough issues. we are not going to run away from our problems. we are going to tackle this country's problems before they tackle us and we're not going to spend the next four years blaming other people, we're going to take responsibility and fix this mess in washington. [applause] we are not going to try to transform this country into something it was never intended to be. [applause] look, i've spent four years of my live at miami of ohio. this is a good place. [applause] we know who we are. we know what we believe in. we know what made this country great. and ladies and gentlemen i am so honored. i am so proud to introduce to you the next president and first lady of the united states mitt and ann romney. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you ohio. i know who you're here to see and she's right next to me. >> this is quite a crowd. who is going to win next tuesday? and is ohio going to do it for us? wh
mitt romney is the right man for this moment. we can do this. [applause] we know what we need to do. we are not going to duck these tough issues. we are not going to run away from our problems. we are going to tackle this country's problems before they tackle us and we're not going to spend the next four years blaming other people, we're going to take responsibility and fix this mess in washington. [applause] we are not going to try to transform this country into something it was never intended...
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hard to imagine romney himself believed these internal polls. >> apparently so. again, they had so deluded themselves about the reality of who this country is and what this country is about, again, it goes to they kept telling us we were just imagining the war on women and yet we were still talking about vaginal probes and legitimate rape. they truly convinced themselves, either that or it's abject malpractice on the part of their pollsters, they convinced themselves that those numbers of young people, african-american, latino wouldn't matter. just like they're kind of doing now. they're trying to convince themselves, people love the ryan budget, so, of course, we're going to fight the president. people don't love the ryan budget. we voted against it. >> exactly. we've been saying that all hour. per perry, romney continues with the delusion. he now says the president won by handing out gifts. but, in fact, it was the gop that was given the gift of citizens united, a terrible economy, and even voter i.d. laws in no fewer than 13 states and they still lost. >> exac
hard to imagine romney himself believed these internal polls. >> apparently so. again, they had so deluded themselves about the reality of who this country is and what this country is about, again, it goes to they kept telling us we were just imagining the war on women and yet we were still talking about vaginal probes and legitimate rape. they truly convinced themselves, either that or it's abject malpractice on the part of their pollsters, they convinced themselves that those numbers of...
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election was with apologies to you, art, a big loser was supply side economics because that's what mitt romney ran on and it was soundly rejected and the tax structure was beneficial to the economy and the budget. >> let me ask you one question, do you think the president would go along without raising the tax rates on the four categories that larry mentioned? do you think he would agree to something that would not raise those rates? >> i think he's going to start where he should start which is what he ran on which is the expiration of the upper income cuts. where he ends up i'm not sure and that's the deal here. >> the other point that i want to raise here is you're not only talking about raising the capital gains tax rate and raising the dividend tax rate so the cost of investment goes up after the tax goes up and income taxes go up and you also have coming to obama care where you will have a surtax rate on higher incomes and capital agains all over again and dividends and when you get through with all of that, the dividend tax and the income tax be about 44%, 45%. and i don't think the divi
election was with apologies to you, art, a big loser was supply side economics because that's what mitt romney ran on and it was soundly rejected and the tax structure was beneficial to the economy and the budget. >> let me ask you one question, do you think the president would go along without raising the tax rates on the four categories that larry mentioned? do you think he would agree to something that would not raise those rates? >> i think he's going to start where he should...
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one romney advisor said romney was quote shell-shocked by the loss. meanwhile, the mastermind behind most of the lies is still making stuff up. carl karl rove wrote in an op-ed the president was also lucky. this time the october surprise was not dirty trick, but an act of god, hurricane sandy interrupted mr. romney's momentum and allowed mr. obama to look presidential and bi bipartisan. wrong again toured urd blossom. that's what mr. bush used to call you. the hurricane had absolutely nothing to do with the president's win. this chart shows poltracking the last month. you can see president obama re regained his momentum before hurricane sandy hit. reality is coming to haunt the republicans in the electorate. let's bring in michael, special correspond for the dal "the daily beast" and wrote a theory on conservative crapola. i love it. this election is a great example how the republican party thinks one thing and the conservative media re gurgitates it out and pays no attention to the truth. what about it? >> their point, they don't exist to assess the
one romney advisor said romney was quote shell-shocked by the loss. meanwhile, the mastermind behind most of the lies is still making stuff up. carl karl rove wrote in an op-ed the president was also lucky. this time the october surprise was not dirty trick, but an act of god, hurricane sandy interrupted mr. romney's momentum and allowed mr. obama to look presidential and bi bipartisan. wrong again toured urd blossom. that's what mr. bush used to call you. the hurricane had absolutely nothing...
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it's not just mitt romney and warren buffett. the damage is spread around. the downside risk to this is very steep, hearing a lot of talk about folks wanting to do some other things. diversification getting out of these dividend paying stocks and into things like corporate bonds and munis. forget about the fiscal cliff for now. the income cliff, if you're an investor who's living off of dividend income, senior citizen, whatever, you are a tremendous risk here. >> david, all you have to look at it the news we just brought you some 15 minutes ago. that disney is now raising the dividend payable december 28th. why? because it's a few days before the fiscal cliff. today, costco, walmart, las vegas sands, dil lards. the list goes on and on. it's been a tidal wave. it's important to everybody. that's why they're doing it. >> let me just correct a couple things jeff said. first of all, what president obama is proposing is to just raise those dividend taxes on people making over $it -- $200,000 or $250,000. the ordinary retiree is not going to be hit by this at all.
it's not just mitt romney and warren buffett. the damage is spread around. the downside risk to this is very steep, hearing a lot of talk about folks wanting to do some other things. diversification getting out of these dividend paying stocks and into things like corporate bonds and munis. forget about the fiscal cliff for now. the income cliff, if you're an investor who's living off of dividend income, senior citizen, whatever, you are a tremendous risk here. >> david, all you have to...
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although the romney campaign has pretty much thrown in the towel there. nbc confirms team romney will not contest the results in the sunshine state regardless of the outcome. right now president obama is ahead with 49.9% of the vote compared to mr. romney's 49.2 with mostly democratic leaning counties left to be counted. that's about a margin just large enough to avoid an automatic recount. by win withing florida, president obama would finish with 332 electoral college votes to romney's 206. that would be the large est marn of victory for an incumbent since 1984. the obama campaign has released video of president obama giving a short speech to a young staff and volunteers at his campaign headquarters in chicago. the emotions of a long campaign come rushing over the president. >> even before last night's results, i felt that the work that i had done in running for office had come full circle. because what you guys have done means that the work that i'm doing is important. i'm really proud of that. i'm really proud of all of you. and what you've -- [ cheers
although the romney campaign has pretty much thrown in the towel there. nbc confirms team romney will not contest the results in the sunshine state regardless of the outcome. right now president obama is ahead with 49.9% of the vote compared to mr. romney's 49.2 with mostly democratic leaning counties left to be counted. that's about a margin just large enough to avoid an automatic recount. by win withing florida, president obama would finish with 332 electoral college votes to romney's 206....
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romney. the biggest contributions from employees of goldman sachs, bank of america, morgan stanley, jpmorgan chase and credit suisse. the president got less than $6 million from wall street. where did his top contributions come from? employees of the university of california. wells fargo, the only bank on the list of top 20 contributors came in at number 19. compare that to 2008, when wall street overwhelmingly supported the president, with employees of goldman sachs contributing more than $1 million to team obama. but new financial regulations and the president's frank talk about the excesses of wall street bruised some egos along the way. >> i would call myself a barely democrat at this point. i've gotten disturbed at some of the democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people and i think it's very counter productive. >> go back to the attacks on work ethic. wall street finds itself in an awkward position, according to the "times", quote, st
romney. the biggest contributions from employees of goldman sachs, bank of america, morgan stanley, jpmorgan chase and credit suisse. the president got less than $6 million from wall street. where did his top contributions come from? employees of the university of california. wells fargo, the only bank on the list of top 20 contributors came in at number 19. compare that to 2008, when wall street overwhelmingly supported the president, with employees of goldman sachs contributing more than $1...
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mitt romney explains why he lost. >> the president's campaign focused on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and worked very aggressively to turn them out to vote. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> well, i just don't know where to begin this week. do we talk about republican charges of a cover-up with regard to the attack in benghazi? do we talk about sexual liaisons and e-mails? to talk about israel and gaza, the possibility of the fiscal cliff? let's start with the sex. [laughter] cia director resigns after the fbi uncovers e-mails showing that general david petraeus had an extramarital affair with his biographer, paula broadwell, a married mother of two. talk about unlimited access. the general was up on capitol hill talking about the benghazi hearings as we were recording this program, so we don't know what he said yet. >> we are safer because of the work that gave petraeus has main hope right now is that he and his family are able to move on and this ends up being a single side not
mitt romney explains why he lost. >> the president's campaign focused on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and worked very aggressively to turn them out to vote. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> well, i just don't know where to begin this week. do we talk about republican charges of a cover-up with regard to the attack in benghazi? do we talk about sexual liaisons and e-mails? to...